CHAPTER II

THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE SOMME

Attack on the Seventeenth and Sixth Corps

Disposal of the Third Army--Attack upon the Third Division--Upon the Thirty-fourth Division--Upon the Fifty-ninth Division--Terrible losses--Loss of Henin Hill--Arrival of Thirty-first Division--Hard fighting of the Fortieth Division--The East Yorkshires at Ervillers--The 15th West Yorks at Moyenneville--Recapture of Ayette--Grand resistance of Third, Fifteenth, and Fourth Divisions before Arras--Final German check in the north